Is it preferable to keep a crawler(s) alive or keep spawning and tearing them down?

✨ 🔌 **MCP connectors are live. Actors now work where you do.** 🔌 ✨ Today we’re launching MCP connectors, so that Actors are no longer limited to the open web. Now you can **securely connect** compatible Actors to apps like Notion, Slack, GitHub, and any other MCP server, so the Actors can read, write, and trigger workflows during a run, **without ever seeing your credentials**. This launch is possible thanks to community developers ParseForge, InovaFlow, Ayen Data, and Goldmine, who pushed themselves to experiment and deliver with this new feature. <a:clapping_all:1430839221077413964> Explore their Actors and other Actors supporting MCP connectors: https://apify.com/store/collections/mcp-connectors Read the full announcement: https://blog.apify.com/announcing-mcp-connectors/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7470075119453999104 Twitter/X: https://x.com/apify/status/2064309436190011673 <@514259565089390604> <@1061710954049572914> <@1407417063286505542> <@690698250004594700> <@1513875509141045472> 🙇

ellativity · 4d ago

hey @everyone, long time no see 👋 Announcing some quick updates to our server: **Built by the community section** As Apify's commitment to support the creator community, we have dedicated this channel for builders of the tools which are helping our creators to build Actors. With full disclaimer, the sole purpose of these channels is to give a space to builders and to showcase it to y'all, and we leave this up to you to analyse if it is useful for you or not. We will constantly monitor these channels, and will add and remove channels as requests come in. 🩷 For now we have three new channels: - <#1511679199637798982> : handled by <@1275327096536830026> helping you to find out the demand data, competitive intel, and pricing insights. - <#1511679242616701050> : handled by <@683054028275712064> helping you figuring out Apify Store demand. - <#1511680725617741824> : handled by <@703480527872720946> is a Chrome extension that reveals pricing, MAU and last update directly on every Actor card in Apify Store. The owners of the tools will soon make a post to announce this and you can check them out. 🫶 I have one more important announcement to make. In order to make our server **ZERO spam tolerant**, we have setup <#1511670934262644797> channel. **Anyone who messages anything in this channel will be permanently banned by the bot** The goal of this channel is to capture the spam and bot accounts spamming each of the possible channel in the server and making it annoying for everyone else. I hope this is a step in good direction and spam will be a thing of past from now on in the Apify and Crawlee Discord server. See ya! <:love:878568596165496852>

Saurav Jain · 2w ago

Building with Apify | Creator Webinar

ellativity · 4w ago